The Nazi Blitzkrieg: The OUTBREAK OF WWII!

7/13/2009 The Nazi Blitzkrieg: The OUTBREAK OF WWII! • Poland • On September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland. • On September 17, Soviet troops ...
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7/13/2009

The Nazi Blitzkrieg: The OUTBREAK OF WWII! • Poland • On September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland. • On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. 15,000 of the captured Polish officers are slaughtered by Stalin's NKVD (KGB) in 1940, Katyn Forest Massacre. • In less than a month, the Nazi blitzkrieg (lightning war) had captured Poland, which surrendered on September 27.

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The War Begins

September 1, 1939—In a radio speech, Hitler justifies invading Poland. Members of Britain and France’s governments would meet and declare war on Germany two days later.

The Soviet Union Strikes! • September & October, 1939- Soviet troops occupy Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. • November 1939- The Soviet Union attacks Finland. Finland holds out at first, but outnumbered 5 to 1 they surrender in March. Finland keeps its independence, but gives up territory to Stalin.

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Hitler Conquers More of Europe! April 1940--Hitler captured Denmark and Norway through an amphibious assault. 1/3 of the German surface fleet is sunk or heavily damaged in invading Norway. In May of 1940, German troops invaded Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg and marched into France. June 17-29, 1940 - Stalin overthrows the governments in the Baltic States and Eastern Romania and installs communist puppet governments

Read “The Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940” and then complete this!

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The Fall of France



On June 22, 1940 France signed an armistice with Germany, agreeing to German occupation of northern France and the coast. • The French military was demobilized, and the French government, now located at Vichy, would collaborate with the German authorities in occupied France.

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Refusing to recognize defeat, General Charles de Gaulle escaped to London and organized the Free French forces. Britain, now headed by Winston Churchill, stood alone against Germany.

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―France Gives Up!‖ Video Clip

Assignment: France Surrenders! •

Directions: Read ―France Surrenders, 1940‖ and ―Hitler Tours Paris, 1940‖ from eyewitnesstohistory.com, which describes Hitler’s triumphant march into Paris, France! Imagine that you are a French photographer. Based on the details presented in the article, draw a ―snapshot‖ or photo of what the event looked like!

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The Battle of Britain July-September, 1940 • The new British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, vowed never to surrender. • During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe— German air force--began massive attacks on Britain to destroy its air defenses. • Britain held firm during the Blitz despite devastating destruction to English cities. • The British resistance convinced Hitler to postpone the invasion but he continued the bombing attacks.

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Battle of Britain Video Clip:

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• July-September, 1940 Battle of Britain

Who really won/lost the Battle of Britain?

RAF —Great Britain’s Royal Airforce

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Who really won/lost the Battle of Britain?

• October 28, 1940 - Greece rejects Italy's demands for the use of Greek bases, Italy invades Greece • December 1940 - Hitler battles Greece. • The Greeks break through the Italian defenses and overrun ¼ of Albania . The Greeks take 28,000 Italian prisoners. • Hitler has to come to Mussolini's aid and send troops to Greece. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia agree to let German troops pass through their countries. • A revolution in Yugoslavia forces Hitler to invade Yugoslavia in order to get to Greece, which is eventually conquered.

War in Europe A Slug in Athens

German machine gunners

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Is Hitler Unstoppable? • April 1941German troops pour into Yugoslavia and Greece and both fall quickly. But Hitler delays his plan to invade Russia .

NEWSREPORT: Why is Hitler winning? • Read the following from Eyewitnesstohistory.com: ―The Nazi Occupation of Poland 1939-1940, ―France Surrenders, 1940‖, ―Hitler Tours Paris, 1940,‖ ―The Battle of Britain,‖ and ―The London Blitz.‖ Acting as an eyewitness news reporter for the London Times, use historical details from these sources to explain why the war is going badly for the Allies in a twopage skit! No need to film! Just perform it!

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DECISION TIME: THE CLASS WILL CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TWO PROJECTS TO COMPLETE! • 1) Model Airplane Project • 2) WWII Board Game Project

World War II: Model Airplane Project! • •

PURPOSE: To provide a crosscurricular approach by fusing history, mathematics and physics to create a successful flight of a model airplane! DIRECTIONS: In this project, you will work in a small group to build a rubberband powered airplane, based on a real WWII combat plane! Here are the requirements: •

1) You must bring your own building materials, including: glue, balsa wood, light canopy paper, exactor knife, propeller, rubber bands, wheels, etc. If this is a problem for your group, let me know. 20 points • 2) You must follow the blueprints of the model. I have several to choose from; if you find your own, please let me know. 20 points • 3) Your model should be scaled correctly and feature the correct proportions. You must also design this to be a sturdy, but light aircraft so that you do not have a crash landing! 20 points • 4) You must color or paint your model to reflect how the aircraft actually looked. Include appropriate decals. Research to discover how your plane looked. 20 points • 5) Your plane should fly! The rubber band inside the plane should spin the propeller and allow the plane to accelerate through the air! 20 points ALTERNATIVES? Alternatives will be considered under special circumstances; however, I would rather not have you go to Hobby Lobby and buy a premade model kit. DISCLAIMER: I will monitor the students very carefully in class as they build their models; however, I cannot be held responsible for potential accidents. Tools, especially the exactor knife, must remain in view at all times in my classroom. STUDENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO CARRY TOOLS WITH THEM ON SCHOOL GROUNDS! Please sign below, indicating that you are giving your approval for this project: Parents Signature: ____________________________________ Date: _______________

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Topics and textbook pages for trivia questions: Western Front and Italian campaign—pages 688-693, 726-727, 736—740, 746-747 The Holocaust—pages 694-701 The Pacific War—pages 705-707, 722-725, 741-745, 748-752 North Africa—pages 725—726, Eastern Front (Russia)—pages 726-727 Cold war—758 and on.

• What is the meaning of this cartoon by Dr. Seuss?

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Warm Up: What’s the meaning of this cartoon? Who’s the cartoonist? Does this surprise you?

Japanese Aggression, 1931 - 1945

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Japan Displays Imperialistic Intentions!

• Like Germany, Japan began to display imperialistic intentions. Emperor Hirohito --the leader of Japan– transforms Japan into a militaristic, imperial nation. •September 1931- Japan invades Manchuria, northern China

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The Japanese Attack! • The Japanese took advantage of China’s weakness and attack. • The Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong and the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek had been fighting in an internal civil war but temporarily join forces to fight Japanese.

Japanese Atrocities in China • “Rape of Nanjing”Japanese slaughtered at least 100,000 civilians and raped thousands of women in the Chinese capital between Dec. 1937 and Feb. 1938.

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Japanese Soldiers March into Nanking, China--December 9, 1937

Victims of the Japanese bombing of Shanghai.

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The Japanese Invasion, 1937

Japanese Bayonet Practice

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Beheadings Took Place in Public!

UNIT 731: Bio-Chemical Warfare

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Why did Japan want to form a Pacific Empire? •

Japan wanted to expand in the Pacific in search of raw materials. • Japan wanted Indochina



Problems: • U.S. insisted of Japan’s withdrawal from China (Manchuria) • Japan’s alliance with Germany and Italy (Tripartite Pact) •Result: Diplomatic relations between U.S. and Japan break down.

Directions: • Using this blank map of Asia and a color pencil, label and shade Japan and all areas it conquered in China and the Pacific by 1942 at the height of world War II! •

You must locate, label and shade these locations: Burma, Thailand, Taiwan, French Indo- China, the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, the Philippines, Tongking, North Borneo, Brunei, Korea, Manchuria, Eastern Mongolia

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U.S. Foreign Policy in Response to Japanese and German Aggression

• March 1940- Lend- Lease Act —allowed the U.S. to lend or lease arms to countries vital to the defense of the U.S. For example, U.S. lent Britain 50 destroyers!

Tensions between Japan and U.S. Increase! • September 1940- Japan signs Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. • In response, Roosevelt declares an embargo – suspension in trade against Japan. Japan was cut off from its major source of oil • Over 80 percent of its oil came from U.S.Japan had only a two-year supply left for its airforce! • November 1941- U.S.- Japanese Peace Talks • The U.S. demands Japan pulls out of China. Japan demands U.S. ends embargo and ends aid to China

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Japan’s Decision for War • “Hull Note--delivered to Japan on Nov. 26, 1941 • Restated U.S. demands • Prime Minister Tōjō sees note as ultimatum and and proof that further diplomacy was futile. • Japanese public opinion was firmly behind the decision for war.

• Late Nov., 1941 – U.S. learns Japanese Armada leaves Japan / lost track of and thought they were headed to attack the Philippines • Dec. 6, Japan breaks off negotiations, refusing to leave China

Would You Have Been Able to Prevent the Japanese Attack? President Roosevelt

Emperor Hirohito

Writing Prompt: Imagine that it is late November 1941. You are a special foreign policy advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Political tensions between the U.S. And Japan have been increasing over the past several years. While you are unaware that Hirohito and his military have been planning to attack Pearl Harbor, you fear that war is about to break out. Write a 100-word foreign policy proposal to Roosevelt, including the following: 1) A summary about why tensions between the U.S. and Japan have increased. 2) A warning to the President about Japan’s military strengths and its ability to cause great harm to the U.S. navy as well as innocent civilians. 3) A solution to ending the tensions between the U.S. and Japan. Can you prevent war? Or, should the U.S. strike first if peace talks continue to fail? Explain

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Writing Activity: “What if you were there? Introduction: It is early morning, December 7, 1941. Just a few miles from the naval base, the Condor, a U.S. Navy minesweep, is on patrol. As the ship slides through the ocean's black waters, an officer sites a submarine's periscope. The Condor follows its wake for several minutes, then alerts the Ward, a nearby destroyer. The Ward's skipper, Lieutenant William Outerbridge, wakes his sleepy crew, and they scramble. – Imagine you are Lieutenant William Outerbridge, skipper of the destroyer, the Ward. You've just received the following signal from minesweeper Condor: "Sighted submerged submarine on a westerly course, speed nine knots." – You have only a few moments to decide what to do. Make a list of the reasons why you should attack and another list of why you shouldn't. What would happen if you did attack? What would happen if you didn't? • ½ page, in a well structured argument in complete sentences, please!

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor-December 7, 1941 • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii • U.S. fleet caught unprepared • 2400 sailors died, 1200 wounded,18 ships sunk, and 160 aircraft damaged and 200 destroyed. • Only the aircraft carriers, by chance on maneuvers, escaped the worst naval defeat in American history.

• Later the same day, Japan attacks the Philippines, Guam, and Midway and attacks British forces in Hong Kong and the Malay Peninsula (Singapore)

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Japanese Zeros take off from aircraft carriers and head to Pearl Harbor

The battleships moored along "Battleship Row" are the primary target of the attack's first wave. Ten minutes after the beginning of the attack a bomb crashes through the Arizona's two armored decks igniting its magazine. The explosion rips the ship's sides open like a tin can starting a fire that engulfs the entire ship. Within minutes she sinks to the bottom taking 1,300 lives with her. The sunken ship remains as a memorial to those who sacrificed their lives during the attack.

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The harbor was ablaze due to massive oil spills. After jumping off their ships, many soldiers were burned alive

USS West Virginia BB-48 (foreground) USS Tennessee BB-43 (background)

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The USS Shaw explodes!

The explosion of the USS Shaw DD-373

Ford Island, the USS Shaw DD-373 explosion can be seen in the background

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The American Response to Japanese Attack • FDR – ―a date that will live in infamy.‖ • Dec. 8, 1941 - U.S. declares war on Japan • Germany and Italy declare war on U.S. • World War II became a global war. • Japan soon develops a new empire in the Pacific. American military leaders focused on halting the Japanese advance and mobilizing the whole nation for war. • Inside America itself, Japanese Americans were rounded up and sent to internment camps.

Continued…

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Contrasting Perspectives on the Pearl Harbor Attack • Directions: It is December 8th, 1941 and the attack on Pearl Harbor has recently occurred. You need to write two 150-word newspaper editorials, complete with one political cartoon each! Here’s how: • 1) Read ―Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941‖ from eyewitnesstohistory.com. Then, writing from the perspective of an American reporter, write the 150word editorial and draw the political cartoon, criticizing the attack! • 2) Read ―Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941—The Japanese Perspective.‖ Do the same as above, but from a Japanese perspective, praising the attack!

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Mr. Cegielski

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Oh, Dear!

Japanese Internment

• Japanese American internment was the forced removal and internment (imprisonment) of 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans (about 62% were citizens!) from the West Coast of the U.S. during World War II. • About 110,000 men, women and children – were sent to "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior.

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OPTION #1

OPTION #2

Not required

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Mobilization in the U.S. • The war effort required all of America’s huge productive capacity and full employment of the workforce. • Government expenditures soared.

• U.S. budget increases • 1940 $9 million • 1944 $100 million • Expenditures in WWII greater than all previous government budgets combined (150 years) • GNP 1939 91 billion 1945 166 million

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Your Number Was Called!

Marine Corps Motor Pool

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Servicing U. S. Bombers

USO Canteen

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Fighting the Enemy on the Battlefield & on the Home Front

Working on the Assembly Line

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Do Your Bit!

Buy, Buy, Buy, Buy a Bond: It Will Lead to VICTORY!

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Restoration of U.S. Prosperity • World War II ended the Great Depression. • Factories run at full capacity • Ford Motor Company – one bomber plane per hour

• People save money (rationing) • Army bases in South provide economic boom (most bases in South b/c of climate) • The national debt grew to $260 billion (6 times its size on Dec. 7, 1941)

Get Your Ration Cards

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Video: ―The Homefront‖ (26:46m)

Q. List and explain several ways America mobilized for War.

Raising Money and Support Via Animated Features • By 1942, when the U.S. Treasury Department was running low on funds for the war effort , it contacted Disney, Merry Melodies, and other production companies to produce propagandist cartoons to mobilize support at home. • These cartoons tended to depict the Germans and Japanese in highly stereotypical ways.

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How are the Germans and Japanese stereotypically treated below?

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The Swastika-dotted landscape of Der Fuehrer's Face (1942) was the perfect brass band musical vehicle for Donald Duck, a Nazi munitions worker who "alternates between screwing nose cones onto bombs and saluting framed portraits of Adolf Hitler". The Japanese make a cameo appearance too - and wouldn't you know it, they've got lime green skin, big bulbous eyeglasses, Tupperware haircuts and protruding dentures rivaling those of Bugs Bunny.

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Topping the charts of historical cartoon propaganda is without a doubt Disney's Education For Death, which graphically details the life and times of Hitler youth. The narrator solemnly intones the distorted text of Gregor Ziemer's The Making of The Nazi. German adults are portrayed in classic Disney "sinister bulldog" style: barrel chest, small rear end, bowed legs, and no neck. The bellowing, red-faced instructor's jowls flop around like coattails as he berates a kindergarten classroom full of Bambi-eyed waifs in lederhosen, whose pluckish heads are delightfully oversized. The military professor's singular goal: get these scatterbrained kids to appreciate Hitler's way of thinking. The lesson plan is presented at the blackboard. Chalk drawings of a fox eating a rabbit illustrate nature's intended course: the weaker species (i.e. Jews and bunnies) are justly but inevitably devoured without mercy by superior forces.

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Superman cartoon #1: Superman fights Japanese Saboteurs in America!

Watch the cartoon. Then, do the following: 1) Write down three reasons why this should be considered propaganda and 2) Write down three reasons why this cartoon should be considered racist.

Superman Cartoon #2: Superman fights the Nazis in Africa!

Watch the cartoon. Then, do the following: 1) Write down three reasons why this should be considered propaganda and 2) Write down three reasons why this cartoon should be considered racist.

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A Very Strange Cartoon Featuring a Daffy Duck-Like Character Playing Hitler!

Watch the cartoon. Then, do the following: 1) Write down three reasons why this should be considered propaganda and 2) Write down three reasons why this cartoon should be considered racist.

Today’s Essential Questions • How did minority participation in World War II reflect social conditions in the United States? • How did minorities contribute to Allied victory? What is the purpose of this U.S. propaganda poster?

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Minority Participation • African Americans generally served in segregated –all black--military units and were assigned to noncombat roles but demanded the right to serve in combat rather than support roles.

Segregated Units

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All-Minority Military Units • Tuskegee Airmen --African American air force pilots-served in Europe with distinction • Nisei regiments -Asian American-earned a high number of decorations

Additional Contributions of Minorities • Navajo communication codes were used (oral, not written language) because they were impossible for the Japanese to break. • Mexican Americans also fought, but in units not segregated • Minority units suffered high casualties and won numerous unit citations and individual medals for bravery in action.

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Navaho “Code Talkers”

Video: Minorities in WWII (29 minutes)

Prompt: While FDR did decide to relocate many Japanese Americans to Internment Camps, other Japanese Americans, along with African Americans and women, contributed to the War effort. In 50 words, describe how each group contributed to the War effort? Did these groups finally earn more respect and rights? Explain, in a well developed paragraph.

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ASSIGNMENT: ANALYZING MINORITIES’S FIGHT AGAINST SEGREGATION DURING WWII • Directions: Using the secondary source documents (A--I) and accompanying pictures from ―World War II, Segregation Abroad and at Home,‖ (handout) complete the following: • A) Develop a list of five types of discrimination or segregation that African-American faced in the military and at home. • B) Then answer this writing prompt in at least 8 sentences: How did African Americans fight for more rights during the World War II era? Do African Americans face less challenges today, thanks to the heroic acts of African Americans during World War II? How has American society changed since World War II? (Hint: Consider this—President Barrak Obama is African American).

Women and World War II • •

What is the purpose of this poster? What does it suggest about women and the war effort?

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The Andrew Sisters Singing “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”

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Betty Grable: Allied Pinup Girl

She Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For

“Rosie, the Riveter”

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Fix that Engine!

Join the Women’s Army Corps

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Women’s Army Air Corps Pilots

We Need Nurses Badly

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Female War Photographer

S..t..r..e..t..c..h That Food!

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No New Dresses for a While

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